Resident Evil 4 Remake: The Clockwork Castellan Figures

The Remake of Resident Evil 4 added a hidden collectible type with no in-game documentation: small orange clockwork figures of Luis Serra hidden throughout the game in hard-to-spot locations. They are not listed in any collectibles menu. No tutorial flags them. The first player to find one had no evidence from the game that more existed.

There are sixteen in total, distributed across every chapter. Several are in locations that require the player to look in directions opposite to the critical path — above doorways, beneath staircases, behind objects that have no other reason to be interacted with. Finding all sixteen completes an achievement and produces a post-game reward, but the game does not acknowledge the collectible type exists until at least one has been found.

The figures are clockwork wind-up toys — a reference to Luis Serra’s background as a scientist who designed mechanical devices. Their distribution throughout the castle and village implies that Luis left them as markers or that the Castellan’s collection is scattered. Neither explanation is provided.

Capcom’s decision to include a completely undocumented collectible type in a AAA remake is unusual and deliberate — a design throwback to an era where secrets were secrets rather than items on a checklist. Players who discovered them without help experienced genuine surprise, which is increasingly rare in modern games that tell you every secret in advance.